A request for change to next years Innovation FIRST control board/system.

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A request for change to next years Innovation FIRST control board/system.

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03-05-2004, 13:57

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Re: A request for change to next years Innovation FIRST control board/system.

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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil

The only disadvantage of using RS-232 is speed and the lack of the port on newer laptops.

I doubt speed is much of a problem anyway. At our current serial download rate (115Kbps), there's a good chance that we're already limited by the FLASH write time. Writing to FLASH parts (compared to reading, or reading/writing to RAM) is very slow.

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